There Take a View of that Fortress & out works & make minnets of the Same if you meet Indieans or any Enemy in your way you are to take them Prisoners or Kill them or distress them any other ways or Means your Prudence shall direct you are to take Good Care of your men and not Expose them too much you are to use all Immaginable Protection not to Loos a man if it should Snow you are to Return Imedintly to this Fort if you Discover any Large Body of the Enemy you are to send off of the most Active of your men with Intelligence to me as Soon as you Can Preforme this Scoute you are to Return to this Fort with your Partey I heartily wish you success And am Sr your Humble Servant: . B Gueasier

To Capt Robt Rotgers

CAPT ROGERS' REPORT

Fort W™ Henry Janty ye 29% 1756

Set out with a Partey of fifty men with Orders to Look Into Crown Point & the Advance Battreys that is Built Round it the first Day we martd Down the Lake George aboute Fighten Miles & Camp4 so we Proceed by the west" of the Greate Moun: tains And Continud our March until the 2¢ of Febry than Clamb'4 up a greate Mounton to the westtd of Crown Point about one Mile & Gave it the name of Ogdens Mount there we took a Particular View of the s¢ Fort & the Ridouts that is Built Round it & a Plan of the Same we Laide there untell the Evening then went Down the Mounten marhd through a small Village Aboute half a mile from the Fort to the Suthord there we Laide in Ambush upon each side of the Roade that leads from the Fort through Sad Village there we Laide Untill about nine of the Clock in Mors and there Came Along one French man which we took Prisoner & 2 more were upon the Roade Accomming towards ns but Discoverd our Ambush & made a Speedy Escape to the Fort